And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThe fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Deuteronomy
LawAnd it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelAnd Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
Luke
Gospels / LukeThen Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
Acts
History / LukeAnd he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
Exodus
Law / MosesAnd the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
1 Kings
HistoryAll nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsNow there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
John
GospelsAnd the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luke
Gospels / LukeSave that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Acts
HistoryAgainst whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
Acts
HistoryWhen thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
Deuteronomy
LawUnto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Nehemiah
HistoryAnd saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
John
GospelsCanst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?